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Syllabus

Financial Management, FIN 3320

Fall 2014

Professor Contact Information

Nina Baranchuk

Phone: 972-883-4771

Office: JSOM 3.430 until mid-September; move to the new building afterwards. Check the web for updates.

Email: nxb043000@utdallas.edu

TA Contact Information

Mohammad Imanlou

Office: JSOM 3.226

Email: mohammad.imanlou@utdallas.edu until mid-September; move to the new building afterwards.

Course Description

This course introduces concepts and analytical techniques to identify and solve financial management problems. It serves as the basis for all other courses in the area of finance as well as providing those basic tools that every business student will need to be successful in her/his chosen career. Those students majoring in business administration and accounting, as well as those going further in the study of finance, will find this material an essential part of their business education. Regardless of the student's chosen career, these tools and techniques will provide the foundation for making personal financial decisions. Pre-requisites: Math 1326, Math 2333 (or OPRE 3333), ACCT 2301, ACCT 2302, MIS3300. Co-requisites: STAT 3360 or OPRE 3360.

Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes

1. Be able to apply time value of money concepts to various valuation problems.

2. Be able to describe what drives a firm's cost of capital and how to estimate it.

3. Be able to analyze investments in real and financial assets using various methodologies.

4. Be able to construct excel spreadsheets to solve basic financial problems.

Required Textbooks and Materials

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance; McGraw-Hill Irwin; Tenth Edition, by Ross, Westerfield and Jordan. with Connect access code required. Connect is an online software that allows students to submit homework assignments and check their work on line. Access to McGraw-Hill Connect is required for this course. Connect Plus is the Connect Finance code plus an e-version of the...